Friday, March 4, 2011

How To Calculate What Spec Dedi Servers You Need For Hosting

By Brittney Mai Lott


People have different reasons why they choose their hosting to be done on dedicated servers. The three most important reasons for businesses and individuals are performance, security and control. A dedicated server will effectively offer all three in a manner that will please and satisfy clients. Having established that dedicated servers are the best option for you, the next and often tricky step is figuring out the server specifications that will be best suited for you. An assessment and some research are important as they help you come up with the server specifications that are most suitable for you.

However there is no single known formula to calculate the server specs needed for your server. The resource requirements are determined by what your website will require now and in the near future. The best specifications to have are those that will be useful for a minimum period of one year. Having to upgrade to higher specs in a period that is less than twelve months often proves to be quite costly. The resource needs will be as per the programming language that has been used to design your website, traffic that will be visiting your site, data volumes to be stored, processes that will be executed on the site as well as other such issues.

There are five key specifications that anyone looking into server hosting should carefully look at. Your first consideration is the operating system that you will use to run the server. This will largely depend on the programming languages that are used to develop your site. There those programs that can work with both Windows and Linux hosting while others can only work with one of these systems. You should also consult your admin to find out the system that they are more comfortable with. The capacity of the processor should be what you look into next.

The most important thing to consider is the processes to be executed on your website. A game or chat website will need a very powerful processer. Bandwidth requirement is another key specification. It should match the traffic expected and the data volumes. It is important to ensure your dedicated server has sufficient bandwidth in order to serve your clients well. The memory capacity will influence the speed at which the website loads. When you use a higher memory it will server your website better. Lastly you need to ensure you have enough data storage space on your server. If your websites operates with a lot of data collection you will need greater storage capacity.

It is critical to have enough capacity on the five specifications so that your dedicated server delivers satisfactory performance. Even though enough capacity is very important, there is no need to have excess capacity which you do not need. If the dedicated server has excess capacity this is a considerable wastage of resources and you shall pay for something that you do not need. Some of the other important aspects a dedicated server should also consider are the level of support, pricing and reporting.




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